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STROLLING down a quiet street in a small town, James Baldwin came upon a scene that has since haunted his dreams. From a sunlit patch of grass came the singing laughter of a child. Baldwin looked ?and saw a white man swinging his little daughter in the air. "It didn't last for more than a second," recalls Baldwin, "but it was an unforgettable touch of beauty, a glimpse of another world. Then I looked down and saw a shadow. The shadow was a nigger?...
...bipeds who will not rest until they have transformed everything with gas lamps-and, what is worse-with electric lights. What times we live in!" So wrote Paul Cézanne in 1902, and, choosing not to live in his times, he spent his last years in the sunlit hills of Southern France in a solitary search for the pure sensations of color. And even more than his oils, the hermit master's ventures in the casual medium of watercolor blaze with a natural incandescence that never could be summoned by a light switch...
...notable Arbeitsuniversität (grind school), meaning that its relatively unprosperous students work extra-hard and pile up Teutonic tensions. Yet all is not blades and blood; the duelers are equally enamored of progressive jazz, hikes on picturesque "Stallion Hill," and lipstickless coeds with hair the color of sunlit beer. "There are human beings among the students too," says one hopeful official...
...Over. Mariner's instruments scanned Venus three times, crossing first the dark side, then the boundary between light and dark, and finally the sunlit side. The microwave radiometer reported a surface temperature of about 800° F. (melting point of lead: 621.5° F.), which seems to vary hardly at all over the whole planet, dark side as well as light side. It showed no detectable water vapor...
What effect would this slow rotation have on Venus' value as a potential spot for space colonization? The answer is not certain, but it is not promising. The dark side of Venus does not seem to be much cooler than the sunlit side; if Venus does not rotate with respect to the sun, something must carry heat from one side to the other. That something may be fierce winds that circulate through the Venusian atmosphere, perhaps making the surface an uncomfortable place to live...